Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Joseph Steffenswas a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 April 1866
CountryUnited States of America
cities village dirt
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
ninety-nine soul psychology
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.
jesus doctrine revolutionary
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
father boys likes
I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.
russia said has-beens
So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.
father practice care
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
adventure fields students
The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
mistake father parent
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.
government administration reform
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
boston practice hypocrisy
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
father son watches
If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
father knows
My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
american-journalist
I have been over into the future, and it works.
demand establish good government leaders steady supply
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.